Bags of Stuff

I laughed at myself Saturday morning. 

I was preparing for my guild meeting with Saturday Spinners. The program was reporting on our UFOs (UnFinished Objects) and blending fiber on drum carders. 

I gathered my stuff and put everything in separate bags.

• fiber to drum card
• the bag holding treasurer responsibilities
• extra bag of miscellaneous fiber to play with
• my UFO & show & tell items
• my knitting bag
• camel fiber & hand cards for making punis

I stood in my entry way looking at 6 bags of stuff. None of them heavy, just bulky. The stuff was divided by category so I could find things easily during the meeting. 

I started to laugh when I envisioned loading up my arms with so many bags.

Work in the fiber arts is full of fiber and equipment. And when we have workshops and meetings we have to bring our STUFF. 

Our stuff turns out to be a myriad of tools, yarn and fiber. We also take stuff with us just in case we don’t feel like working on what we are supposed to.

So I had 6 bags lined up on the floor for a 2 hour meeting. I laughed some more. 

I knew that I was not going to be able to actually use items from all 6 bags. So I got rid of the bag of miscellaneous fiber and stuffed the small bag of knitting into another. I got down to four bags. Much more manageable.

Here is what I carded on a Pat Green drum carder - beige CVM (California Variegated Mutant) fiber base with dyed mohair locks in red/yellow/orange colorway from La Llama Farm. I ran it through the drum carder twice to get more color blended. 

I gave the finished batt to my mother. She said it would match up with some other fiber she had ready for spinning. I have lots of both fibers left to blend more if she needs it.

Drum carding was very fun. 

To top the morning off, it was pouring rain. Which meant, in addition to holding 4 bags of stuff, I also had to manage an umbrella...